Package making – Group forming of contents unit and subsequent or further... – Layer – stack – or column
Patent
1979-05-03
1980-10-07
Culver, Horace M.
Package making
Group forming of contents unit and subsequent or further...
Layer, stack, or column
53534, 53247, 53249, B65B 3530, B65B 3914
Patent
active
042260736
ABSTRACT:
An automatic tray loading apparatus for cookies or the like in which cook are divided into two rows with cookies in each row separated into groups of a given count and continuously conveyed to a loading station for loading into trays. A pair of drop chute members are aligned with the rows of cookies and each arranged to receive a discrete cookie group dropped therein by a drop gate device. The cookie group dropped into one of the drop chutes is moved laterally into close proximity to a second cookie group resting in the second drop chute to bring the cookie spacing into register with the spacing of cookie receiving compartments in the trays. Drop gate slides for each drop chute are then activated to open chute outlet openings to drop each cookie group into an appropriate compartment of a waiting cookie tray. A tray conveyor then carries away the cookie-filled tray and spots an empty tray below the drop chute outlet openings.
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Rose Edward
Roth Robert A.
Culver Horace M.
Peters Machinery Company, Subsidiary of Katy Industries, Inc.
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